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I haven't seen one for about 20 years. I used triumph herald bits - partly because I managed to get a whole chassis from someone just up the road, and partly because the bits are fairly common and some parts are still manufactured for something like the caterham (which the locost is sort of a copy of).

The Range Rover isn't "lying around", it's my Range Rover. People on Land Rover forums are already telling me off for describing it as a "rolling chassis".
Also, the TVR engine is fucked. It's from a written off TVR that hit a wall - caused by the engine seizing up. I'll have a shot at getting it fixed, but I'll probably have to stick with the Rover V8.

Oooh - cool. My Dad's a massive Triumph Herald nut, having owned half a dozen of them when he was a youngster. So he may be of use, then.

The Caterham 7 and Lotus 7 are both, basically, the same car, aren't they?

You can't rip the guts out of an Escort 1100
That should be a crime, they're beautiful!

Yeah, I think so. Caterham tends to have a big Ford engine in it though.

If I did it I'd be sticking in as big an engine as possible. Honda Fireblade has been done, and works well, apparently.

The other option is to save up and actually just buy a Caterham - they customise quite well for you, and can provide in varying degrees of assembledness.

Ultimately I still want to buy one of those kit Spitfire replica aeroplanes though. Whoosh!

One of the things at that airshow I went to at the weekend was a *microlight* plane which looked fairly like a spitfire. A German all composite thing - pretty amazing considering that a normal microlight looks something like a large kite with the "pilot" hanging underneath with a fan strapped to his back.
Presumably there are cost and license benefits to it being a microlight, as well as having a tiny engine for cheap running.

I know someone who is currently trying to get hold of one of these pieces of awesome to build:



It's a full size homebuilt FW190.

Factory condition then.

I downloaded this:
http://www.dynolicious.com/

..earlier but it's bugged to hell at the moment. I mean it works but the calibration facility doesn't, which is a bit pants.

If they fix it and enable you to upload your car data to a website of some sort, it'll be amazing...

That's pretty impressive. Presumably there's no way of using that on a jailbroken iPhone that doesn't have the 2.0 firmware?

Correct, but if you upgrade to 2.0 (jailbroken, unlocked) using the 'pwnage' tool first, and you'll be able to run the appstore apps.

Note 1: there's a similar app called g-tac which is much cheaper and does much the same thing.

Note 2: if you're upgrading to 2.0, bear in mind that very few of the existing installer apps have been ported for 2.0 (some of them are in appstore though). And, 2.0 seems to be a tinch slower and crashier than 1.1.4 in general unfortunately.

Sod that then. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Yeah I have mixed feelings about having upgraded it. But hey, that's life on the cutting edge